IRAQI PM IBRAHIM AL-JAAFARI IN IRAN
Iraqi Prime Minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari (L), and Iranian Vice-President, Mohammad Reza Aref, listen to the national anthems, during an official welcoming ceremony for Jaafari at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran on July 16, 2005. .Al-Jaafari arrived in Iran on Saturday, the first in decades by a leader of Iraq. (UPI/Reza Madadi)
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Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari met with Kurdish officials to discuss a national partnership as alliances take shape for the next government.
Backers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said they would hold key government posts in the next Iraqi government should a new Shiite slate win in January elections.
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari unveiled a new Shiite bloc Monday, the Iraqi National Alliance, but the current premier stayed behind.
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said in Tehran the people of Iraq had voiced their opposition to the Washington security pact.
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and a slew of other lawmakers Friday condemned the long-term security deal reached with the United States.
The Dawa Party of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Friday renounced former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari for seeking to establish a new political party.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met Shiite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim to discuss a U.S. security deal with Iraq amid rising tensions over the agreement.
The Sunni Al Mashriq newspaper said Thursday in an editorial titled "The killing of 15 women" that the problem any militia in the world faces is that no matter how politically professional, organized and ideologically mature they are, they still might be accepted by one country and rejected by another.
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